BONES JOBS
SPECIAL JOBS
SKELETON FACTS
SHOW ME WHERE
RELATED FACTS
100
Our SKELETON gives our body _______.
SHAPE
100
What bone protects our brain?
SKULL
100
In a full grown skeleton there are how many bones?
206
100
Show me your SKULL.
SKULL
100
Something other than bone is found inside your nose and ears.
CARTILAGE
200
All of our bones make up our ________. Without this our body would look like a blob.
What is our SKELETON
200
What bones give our heart and our lungs protection?
RIBS
200
The smallest bone in my body is found where?
inside the EAR
200
Show me your RIBS.
RIBS
200
Our bones meet other bones at _______ which helps bones to move around.
JOINTS
300
Some bones ___________ special parts of our body.
PROTECT.
300
Our backbone is also called _________. It protects our spinal cord. The SPINAL CORD is the main pathway for information connecting the brain and peripheral nervous system.
SPINE or VERTEBRAE
300
The longest bone in the skeleton is found where?
inside the LEG
300
Show me your COLLAR BONE.
COLLAR BONE
300
What is the "FUNNY" bone?
If you hit the inside of your elbow in just the right spot and feel a tingling or prickly kind of dull pain? That's your funny bone! But your funny bone isn't actually a bone at all. Running down the inside part of your elbow is a nerve called the ulnar nerve.
400
Red bone marrow helps to make what?
BLOOD (Red Blood Cells)
400
If we break a bone a Doctor will put this around the broken bone until the bone heals.
CAST
400
What is in the center of your long bones?
BONE MARROW
400
Show me your VERTEBRAE.
VERTEBRAE
400
Tissues that connect bones in the body. They help keep joints stable and also prevent our joints from bending backwards.
LIGAMENTS
500
Yellow bone marrow stores what?
FAT
500
Another name for your spine is ________.
VERTEBRAE
500
Show me your THIGH bone.
THIGH
500
These work to move our bones so we can move around.
MUSCLES